Regarding Formation of a Special Department Within the Belgrade District Court

Organization Transparency Serbia, a branch of Transparency International, the only international organization specialized in fighting the corruption, welcomes the announcement of a special department formation within the Belgrade District Court. This department will be authorized for putting the organized crime suspects on trial.

Transparency Serbia believes that during the investigation and the trials intended for the organized crime group members, all the cases when these persons have bribed those employed in the administration of justice, police and other state institutions, should be fully revealed.

Organized crime uses corruption as a means of achieving its goals, but at the same time, it also undermines the citizens' trust in the institutions. Therefore, the harmful consequences for the society arising from such ACTIVITIES, are much greater than the damage done by corrupt individuals in specific cases.

Transparency Serbia expects that the special prosecutor and future judges of particular departments, shall perform this job successfully, and that they shall look on the corruption as none the less important sphere of their activity, as specified in the provisions of the Law on the organization and competence of state organs in stamping out the organized crime.

Furthermore, such an activity would be in accordance with the provisions of Articles 20 and 23 of Criminal Law Convention on corruption, ratified by our country more than a year ago, as well as with the provisions of Article 9 of the UN Convention against transnational organized crime.

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